St. Geralds College

The facts

Getting in

Oversubscribed last year. The notice carries a previous-year breakdown, which schools only have to publish when more people applied than there were places.

check the notice — it lists more than one intake.

Read the school's Annual Admission Notice ↗ (2026/27)

Ireland has no catchment areas. A place depends on the school's own oversubscription criteria — siblings, feeder school, parish, distance, date of application — not on where you live. Read the admissions policy for those.

Special classes

2 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders

1 of these are newly sanctioned for 26/27, up from 1 classes last year.

Source: National Council for Special Education. Children in a special class travel under a separate transport scheme with its own rules.

The area around this school

School planning area: Castlebar. This is how the Department plans where to build capacity. It is not a catchment.

Local house prices: the median residential sale price in Eircode district F23 (Castlebar) was €271,000 in 2025. That is up 66.8% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Castlebar Urban at -5.44 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 39% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Castlebar

• Ballintubber N S Primary school, Mayo
• Ballyvary Central N S Primary school, Mayo
• Breaffy N S Primary school, Mayo
• Castlebar Educate Together National School Primary school, Mayo
• Castlebar Primary School Primary school, Mayo
• Crimlin N S Primary school, Mayo
• Davitt College Secondary school, Mayo
• Gaelscoil Raifteirí Primary school, Mayo
• S N An Coill Mhor Primary school, Mayo
• S N An Teaghlaigh Primary school, Mayo
• S N B Curnanool Primary school, Mayo
• S N Naomh Brid C Primary school, Mayo